Dead woman's husband gets a DWI

Man had just left house before deputies probing death arrived to search

By Bryan Fitzgerald

Updated 7:06 am, Thursday, June 7, 2012

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Brent Alling (State Police photo)

Brent Alling (State Police photo)

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Brent Alling (State Police photo)

Brent Alling (State Police photo)

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A sheriff car is parked on June 5, 2012 at the crime scene on Tyrell Road where a body was found yesterday in Mayfield, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

A sheriff car is parked on June 5, 2012 at the crime scene on Tyrell Road where a body was found yesterday in Mayfield, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

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Crime scene on June 5, 2012 on Tyrell Road where a body was found yesterday in Mayfield, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

Crime scene on June 5, 2012 on Tyrell Road where a body was found yesterday in Mayfield, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

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A Fulton County sheriff's deputy guards Tyrell Road in Mayfield, the place where the Fulton County Sheriff's Office says a woman's body was found on Monday, June 4, 2012. (Bryan Fitzgerald / Times Union)

A Fulton County sheriff's deputy guards Tyrell Road in Mayfield, the place where the Fulton County Sheriff's Office says a woman's body was found on Monday, June 4, 2012. (Bryan Fitzgerald / Times Union)

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A Fulton County sheriff's deputy guards Tyrell Road in Mayfield, the place where the Fulton County Sheriff's Office says a woman's body was found on Monday, June 4, 2012. (Bryan Fitzgerald / Times Union)

A Fulton County sheriff's deputy guards Tyrell Road in Mayfield, the place where the Fulton County Sheriff's Office says a woman's body was found on Monday, June 4, 2012. (Bryan Fitzgerald / Times Union)

Dead woman's husband gets a DWI

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MAYFIELD — The husband of a woman whose naked body was found dumped on the side of a rural dead-end road was charged Wednesday with driving away from his house drunk just before sheriff's deputies searched the home.

Brent Alling has not been charged in connection with the death of Kathryn Jackson-Alling, Fulton County Sheriff Tom Lorey said. Alling is being uncooperative, the sheriff said, but investigators believe he may know what happened the day of his wife's death.

"I'm sure Mr. Alling has information that we need to know that he is not willing to share," Lorey said.

Jackson-Alling, 54, was found dead at 10:30 a.m. Monday in a field just off the top of Tyrrell Road, 2 miles from the couple's home at 127 Delaney Road.

Alling, 42, was pulled over around 4 p.m. Tuesday for driving erratically on Route 30 near Christie Road. State Police Sgt. Matt Murray said Alling had alcohol on his breath and refused to take a Breathalyzer test. Alling was charged with DWI and several traffic violations, arraigned in Mayfield Town Court and sent to Fulton County Correctional Facility after failing to post $2,500 bail.

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Lorey said Wednesday that bruises found on Jackson-Alling's body did not contribute to her death.

"We still don't know if it was from natural causes or a drug overdose," Lorey said.

The results of a toxicology exam on her body could take weeks.

Lorey said he believes the blue Dodge pickup truck Alling was driving at the time of his arrest is the same truck a neighbor reportedly spotted driving up Tyrrell Road the morning the body was found.

Whoever left Jackson-Alling's body at the site could be charged with a misdemeanor under public health law.

"The witness saw a strange truck on the day the body was found. Mr. Alling drives a truck that appears to be the same truck," Lorey said.

Alling's truck was seen at 7:30 a.m. driving up Tyrrell Road, 24 to 36 hours after Jackson-Alling died, Lorey said.

Alling is represented by Gloversville attorney Bob Abdella, who spoke with his client but would not discuss the case. Fulton County District Attorney Louise Sira could not be reached for comment.

Alling and his wife lived in a camper behind the house at 127 Delaney Road, which is owned by Alling's mother, Lorey said. Sheriff's deputies were still searching the home Wednesday.

The couple had been together for 10 years and were previously reported to be unmarried. They had moved several times in the past few months, though why is unclear, Lorey said. Both were unemployed.

Though Lorey said investigators have "amassed a huge amount of circumstantial evidence," the investigation into the death has been complicated by many factors including the "lack of cooperation from Mr. Alling, obviously," he said.

Alling has had previous run-ins with police, the most significant being a three-year prison sentence for assaulting a woman that ended in 1996. Lorey said that woman was not Jackson-Alling.